social services

plural noun

1. welfare activities organized by the state or a local authority and carried out by trained personnel

Example Sentences

The four children were taken into custody by the Department of Social Services.

From The Daily Beast

For a New Democrat, financial services profiting from people on social services is the ultimate in public-private partnerships.

From The Daily Beast

Religious schools are being opened; social services, if rudimentary, are being organized.

From The Daily Beast

[The Department of Social Services] is saying that she bonded with the foster mom.

From The Daily Beast

I talked about Holy Cross, and the time I spent in Worcester helping welfare recipients navigate job training and social services.

From The Daily Beast

Deficit spending—and always the vital social services for which the government has to spend money.

From Project Gutenberg

The evils attendant upon subsidizing any form of sectarian institution, whatever its social services, are too great to be ignored.

From Project Gutenberg

The armengol women, marriages, and public festivals start it out again, and on its way back it performs many social services.

From Project Gutenberg

The wire to the Opera is a still more curious example of the social services the new power is destined to perform.

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But in many ways fortunes appear to grow without social services, and sometimes with social harm.

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